Monday

December 28, 2015

Two Kookaburra chicks 1st December.
 
4 weeks later their hay bale nest is a tight squeeze.

14 comments:

  1. Nice photos. They brought back memories of the song we used to sing in grade school.
    Laugh, Kookaburra! Laugh, Kookaburra!
    Gay your life must be

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    1. The Kookaburra laugh is very distinctive at dawn & dusk. Some say when you hear the Kookaburra laugh in the afternoon rain is on its way...

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  2. Gay your life must be indeed. Great photos. How do you photograph kooka chicks in a nest? I don't even know where they nest. Hay bales?

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    1. Not easily! A pair of Kookaburras nest every year in a stack of hay bales on our farm... a new nest every year, different hay stack. They build their nest between 2 bales (hence why you can see the blue twine that wraps around the bales) very high up, about 5-6 metres up the stack. So the only way you can see them is via a ladder. The nest is a fair way into the bales, and when they are little you can only see them by taking a photo with an iPhone.

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  3. A melhor maneira de sair é seguir em frente com motivação, FELIZ ANO 1016.
    AG

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  4. They look so naked in the top picture..... Super shots, Lynda.

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  5. Ooooh. It is too long since I have seen a kooka, and I have NEVER seen a baby. How lucky you are.

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  6. Those 'naked' chicks don't look that good,but they do look much better as they grow.

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    1. They aren't really the prettiest of chicks when newly hatched.

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  7. Oh my! How sweet that is. Never seen anything like that before. Thanks.

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  8. Oh, so adorable...lucky you to get to photograph them.

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  9. Wow lucky you to follow this life cycle.Diane

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